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Due to filming, the ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed between the 6th of April 2022 and the 25th of April 2022.

On the 24th of March 2022, the ELTE Alumni Centre organised a successful event entitled "The University Opens its Doors" in the ELTE University Library.

In 1788, king József II. appointed Márton Schwartner to the Department of Diplomacy, who taught diplomacy and coats of arms and seals until his death in 1823. He was an excellent scientist, and through his work the teaching of auxiliary sciences at the University of Pest became of European standard.

The Elsevier’s customer service consultants organised a free webinar to help you use Scopus

MTMT training sessions are organized by ELTE University Library and Archives (ULA) and Library of Faculty of Humanities (FOH) for the international lecturers, students, PhD candidates of the FOH. MTMT trainings are offered free of charge, but registration is required.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on the 14th of March 2022 (Monday) and on the 15th of March 2022 (Tuesday) on the occasion of the national holiday. From Wednesday (from the 16th of March 2022) we are waiting for our readers according to the usual opening hours.

University curricula are available until 1995 at the Arcanum Digital Library

The most important legal insurance documents of the University were kept in the office of the current rector, locked in a metal box. Finally the documents were transferred to the University Library as a deposit in 1952, and after the Archives was established, the certificates were taken into its custody.

Our series entitled “Mosaics from the heritage of ELTE” presents some of the key material cultural heritage of the Eötvös Loránd University. The object of the month is the Pallasite meteorite.

The Citizens of ELTE have the opportunity to try out the following two databases that can be accessed from ELTE IP range or in case of remote access using Stunnel or VPN service.

There is a unique opportunity for the ELTE Faculty of Economics' students to participate on a training that intend to share good practice of writing and editing thesis.

In cooperation with the ELTE Botanical Garden, a large-scale gardening project took place in the inner courtyard of the University Library.

The registration dates for the exhibition „Under the Enchantment of Accuracy – The Life and Work of Loránd Eötvös” are now available.

The online training on research data, research data management and data repositories was a great success organized by the colleagues of ELTE University Library and Archives in early February 2022.

The historian, Dániel Cornides (1732–1787) was appointed to the University of Pest in 1784 as a teacher of historical auxiliary sciences and guardian of the university library.

The Accessible library team of the K21 Quality Management Coordination Comittee has compiled a guide for librarians.

In 2021, the Archives was expanded with the legacy of two prominent university professors.

The Foundation for the University Library purchased workchairs and tables by utilizing the National Cooperation Fund grant for the Restoration and Bookbinding Workshop in the Eötvös Loránd University Library and Archives.

Our first special educators studied and practiced in the field of teaching deaf children in Vienna, the institute for deaf-mute people operating there since 1799. The first special education institutions in Hungary were established in the 1800s, called „philanthropic” institutions.

István Ádám, Annie Fischer scholarship student of the Ministry of Human Resources, gives a guitar concert in the University Library and Archives of Eötvös Loránd University at 6.00 p.m. on the 18th of February 2022.